The Center provides a wide variety of assistance to university faculty with an interest in improving undergraduate and graduate education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The following services are available to interested faculty:

Professional Development Workshops
Cross-Discipline and Cross-College Collaborative Seminars
Professional Travel

Current and Past Projects and Grants

• Participating in Project FIRST an NSF sponsored, national, professional development project
• Supporting the development of an undergraduate secondary education degree with concentrations in science and mathematics
• Providing annual Whitaker Faculty convocations with nationally recognized guest speakers
• Hosting regular cross-college seminars to explore and share practices in teaching science, engineering and mathematics
• Funding from an NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant that has purchased science research equipment that supports active inquiry learning in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education
• Submitted an NSF Research on Learning in Education ROLE proposal to conduct research on the use of course review materials self- and peer-review of teaching.
• Submitted an NSF Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education (DLR) proposal to develop an integrated, inquiry-based curriculum for the new School of Engineering